Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Kinship Notation
  • Linguistic Note
  • 1. A Classic Problem
  • Thomas R. Trautmann and Peter M. Whiteley
  • Crow-Omaha in Theory
  • 2. Crossness and Crow-Omaha
  • Thomas R. Trautmann
  • 3. Tetradic Theory and Omaha Systems
  • Nicholas J. Allen
  • North America
  • 4. Omaha and â€oeOmahaâ€?
  • R.H. Barnes
  • 5. Crow-Omaha Kinship in North America: A Puebloan Perspective
  • Peter M. Whiteley
  • 6. Phylogenetic Analysis of Sociocultural Data: Identifying Transformation Vectors for Kinship Systems
  • Ward C. Wheeler, Peter M. Whiteley, and Theodore Powers
  • Africa7. A Tetradic Starting Point for Skewing? Marriage as a Generational Contract: Reflections on Sister-Exchange in Africa
  • Wendy James
  • 8. Crow-(and Omaha- ) TypeKinship Terminology: The Fanti Case
  • David B. Kronenfeld
  • 9. Deep-Time Historical Contexts of Crow and Omaha Systems Perspectives from Africa
  • Christopher Ehret
  • South America
  • 10. The Making and Unmaking of â€oeCrow-Omahaâ€? Kinship in Central Brazil(ian Ethnology)
  • Marcela Coelho de Souza
  • 11. Schemas of Kinship Relations and the Construction of Social Categories among the MebîngÃ?krî Kayapó
  • Terence TurnerAustralia
  • 12. Omaha Skewing in Australia Overlays, Dynamism, and Change
  • Patrick McConvell
  • 13. â€oeHorizontalâ€? and â€oeVerticalâ€? Skewing Similar Objectives, Two Solutions?
  • Laurent Dousset
  • Afterword
  • 14. Crow-Omaha, in Thickness and in Thin
  • Thomas R. Trautmann and Peter M. Whiteley
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • References
  • Topics Index
  • Peoples Index
  • Persons Index